What change will Lula bring? • Power on the docks: Use it or lose it • Bush's new search for black gold • China's succession crisis • North Korea: Trying to get off the A-list • The great proliferator • Putin's "war on terror" • No to a Europe of capital and war

FEATURES

Spinning media gears for a faraway war
by Norman Solomon

The making of a UN fig leaf
by John Pilger

"They can't privatize our dreams"
by Oscar Olivera

Q&A: The truth behind their war
by Eric Ruder

UN: Thieve's Kitchen
by Phil Gasper

Bush Doctrine: Turning point for U.S. imperialism
by Ahmed Shawki

The democrats and war: Not a lesser evil
by Sherry Wolf

The Geopolitics of Oil
by Saman Sepehri

The Italian left in the 1970s
by Yurii Colombo

Slavery and the origins of racism
by Lance Selfa

Slavery and the question of reparations
by Ben Dalbey

The founding of the Communist International
by Duncan Hallas

REVIEWS: On a collision course with nature • let them eat job training • Roots of Bush's new foreign policy; William Z. Foster • Chicago's killer heat • The Underground Railroad • Insider exposes the IMF's war on the poor